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PowerWhy
Helper IV
Helper IV

How to filter by the maximum value in a field?

Hello,

 

Say I had a table of transactions, and there was a field with fiscal year. Please can you tell me how to only return records who's fiscal year is equal to the maximum in that column (i.e. the latest fiscal year)

 

Thank you,

 

PW

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Payeras_BI
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

Hi @PowerWhy ,

A possible solution:

Payeras_BI_0-1683626934787.png

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjIwMlCK1UFlGMIYRjCGMRIjFgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Fiscal Year" = _t]),
    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(Source, each ([Fiscal Year] = List.Max(Source[Fiscal Year])))
in
    #"Filtered Rows"

 

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J. Payeras
Mallorca, Spain

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Anonymous
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Hi @PowerWhy ,

 

You could try the Group By in Power Query.

Here're the steps.

1.Load the table of transactions into Power Query.

2.Group the table by the fiscal year field.

3.Add an aggregation step to find the maximum value of the fiscal year field.

4.Merge the maximum value back into the original table using a left outer join.

5.Filter the table to only include rows where the fiscal year field is equal to the maximum value.

 

Reference: How to GROUP BY or summarize rows - Power Query | Microsoft Learn

 

   

                                                                                                                                                         

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

 

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Payeras_BI
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

Hi @PowerWhy ,

A possible solution:

Payeras_BI_0-1683626934787.png

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjIwMlCK1UFlGMIYRjCGMRIjFgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Fiscal Year" = _t]),
    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(Source, each ([Fiscal Year] = List.Max(Source[Fiscal Year])))
in
    #"Filtered Rows"

 

If this post answered your question, please mark it as a solution to help other users find useful content.
Kudos are another nice way to acknowledge those who tried to help you.

J. Payeras
Mallorca, Spain

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